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From: rich@inmet.inmet.com
Newsgroups: comp.lang.smalltalk
Subject: Re: Smalltalk Implementation Summary
Message-ID: <22600003@inmet>
Date: 14 Dec 89 22:04:00 GMT
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Nf-From: inmet.inmet.com!rich    Dec 14 17:04:00 1989


Is this legal in Smalltalk?  I know blocks are not true lambda closures. 
Little Smalltalk generates an error when you execute the "test" method.

	test
		self getAblock value
|
	getAblock
		^ [ ^ 2 ]

If the block that getAblock doesn't explicitly return, then it goes OK.

Richard Man
	uunet!inmet!rich